The other day I was discussing polygamy with my best friend. More specifically, I was proposing a polygamous lifestyle to her, even more specifically her and me as sister wives.
I know, I am obsessed with polygamy. I just am really on board with this as a valid choice.
So, anyway we started going down the path of how it would all work. It seems the hardest part for us would be finding a guy we could agree on. Our types are different. I actually think I could reel someone decent in for both of us. Well, decent for the lifestyle. I seem to have a thing for commitmentphobes and serial cheaters, so they are the perfect candidates for this arrangement. I am comfortable taking the lead in scoring our husband. She would probably find a decent guy who thinks this is a bad idea and we cannot be having that.
It would be a pretty sweet deal in my estimation. Once we got past the whole swapping thing, life would be simple. She could work and continue being awesome at her career. I would be a homemaker and tend to our compound. I would cook and raise the children and do the shopping and clean.
Shit, cleaning. That is the hitch for me. I don’t clean. Would it be kosher to hire a housekeeper? Would I be denied my place in the celestial kingdom if I threw someone a few hundred dollars to deal with the dishes? Or is cleaning part of the gig, as well as only having my husband every other night?
And then this is when I really started to question who I am. The idea of cleaning up after an extra wife is more repelling than sharing my husband. Sharing my husband takes no extra work. Additional laundry is something I am not ready to take on.
Seems polygamy won’t work afterall. Tis a shame. We would have thrown amazing dinner parties with our husband.
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From watching sister wives, it seems like you don’t have to hire a housekeeper, just find a third wife who likes to clean.
As a new fanatic of Sister Wives, I loved this post! Clearly the next logical discussion in the great polygamy debate is who would hand-wash the delicates?
Did you read “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”? Because there’s an arrangement in there that appeals to me on many levels.
I do think polyamory is a valid choice, mostly because who am I to question someone else’s choices when I can barely make my own properly. But I don’t think it always works very well. If you decide to do it, though, I could be in for some experimentation as a sister wife. I don’t mind doing the dishes, but I hate laundry…
Maybe I wouldn’t really be a useful addition after all?
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I brought it up with Josh, but he’s not having it.
The Maiden Metallurgist´s last blog ..Adorable Knitting
Get a third wife to clean. And I’m all for polyamory, but I want multiple men.
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my first thought was the same as christy’s - find a THIRD wife to clean. perfect answer! i feel like i must experience this sister wives everyone is talking about. i’ve tried to be open to the ideas of polyamory but i can’t seem to get over the jealousy hump…
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Hahaha awesome. I’m way too territorial/clingy to ever share a husband or boyfriend, but the idea of someone else doing all the cooking and cleaning is pretty damn appealing.
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Forget the husband and the sister wife. Too many devils are in the details.
Just get a maid…..
I lived in a group house in grad school and I quite liked always having someone to hang out with. Except when someone was really annoying me. But spouses are different. I think it could work. However. Worse than cleaning after the extra wife would be full care of all the kids, in my opinion. You wouldn’t have a second to yourself. And talk about constantly picking shit up. Nightmare.
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Put the second wife in charge of the laundry. Better yet, each do your own laundry, & split your husband’s. You both end up with what you’d have anyway, & just a tiny bit more (his).
Suburban Sweetheart´s last blog ..Readin Good & Votin for Rockstars
Is the divorce rate still around 50% for regular one man-to-one woman marriages? ‘Cause that’s already too damn high, when religious folks and politic pundits try to perpetrate that it’s the only kind of marriage that should exist in society.
Not to say Polygamy is all great shakes, but if it works for some people, it shouldn’t be anyone else’s business.
I couldn’t handle, though. That’s too much multi-tasking!
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You know what would be really bad … being in a polygamous relationship and the man decides he’s really a “woman inside” and decides to cut off his dick. Then you’d be left doing laundry for three women. Think about it.
i’m intrigued by the idea of polygamy, but i could never actually do it. i can handle chores. just not big on sharing my man… unless we could do it in shifts maybe. i get him first shift, and my sister-wife can have him after i fall asleep
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